Friedrich Tenbruck

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Friedrich Tenbruck (painted by Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann , 1983)

Friedrich H. Tenbruck (born September 22, 1919 in Essen , † February 9, 1994 in Tübingen ) was a German sociologist .

life and work

Tenbruck studied philosophy, history and German at the University of Freiburg , especially with Martin Heidegger and, after turning away from Heideggerianism, at the universities in Berlin, Cologne, Greifswald and Marburg. At the University of Marburg , he was in 1944 with a thesis on Kant's " Critique of Pure Reason " in Philosophy at Julius Ebbinghaus Dr. phil. PhD. In Marburg he lived in Max Kommerell's house . From 1946 to 1949 he worked as a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar at Marburg University. In the 1950s he switched from philosophy to sociology and, after studying in the USA in 1951/51, became personal assistant to Max Horkheimer in Frankfurt am Main for a few months . From 1957 to 1962 Tenbruck taught as an assistant professor at the Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva ( New York ). After returning to Germany , he completed his habilitation in 1962 at the University of Freiburg under Arnold Bergstraesser with a thesis on history and society . In 1963 Tenbruck became full professor of sociology at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Frankfurt am Main and in 1967 (as successor to Ralf Dahrendorf ) professor at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Tübingen . Tenbruck has the Cultural Sociology revived and the section "sociology of culture" of the German Sociological Association co-founded. After 1968 he was one of the sharpest scientific critics of the more recent developments in sociology, especially in the Marxist version, but also of the structural functionalism that dominated in the 1960s .

His students include Alois Hahn and Gottfried Küenzlen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Youth and society. Sociological Perspectives , Rombach, Freiburg 1962 (2nd edition 1965).
  • The work of Max Weber . Methodology and social sciences. in KZfSS vol. 38, 1986, pp. 13-31. Again in: Jürgen Friedrichs & Karl Ulrich Mayer & Wolfgang Schluchter, eds .: Sociological theory and empiricism. KZfSS. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997, ISBN 3531131397 , pp. 106-124
  • The unsolved social sciences or the abolition of man. Styria, Graz 1984, ISBN 3-222-11453-6 .
  • The social sciences as a myth of modernity . Adamas, Cologne 1985. ISBN 3-920007-90-5 .
  • History and society . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1986 (habilitation thesis from 1962)
  • The cultural foundations of society. The fall of modernity . West German, Opladen ² 1990. ISBN 3-531-12005-0 .
  • What was the cultural comparison before the cultural comparison existed? . In: Joachim Matthes (ed.): “Between cultures? The social sciences before the problem of cultural comparison ”(series Soziale Welt, special volume 8), pp. 13–35
  • Perspectives in cultural sociology. Collected essays , edited with Clemens Albrecht . Westdeutscher, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-12773-X .
  • The work of Max Weber. Collected essays on Max Weber , ed. With Harald Homann. Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-146976-3 .

literature

  • Alois Hahn : Friedrich Tenbruck. A biographical sketch. In: Hans Braun, Alois Hahn (Hrsg.): Culture in the age of the social sciences. Friedrich H. Tenbruck on his 65th birthday. Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-496-00795-8 , pp. 269-272.
  • Alois Hahn: Tenbruck, Friedrich H. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Hrsg.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. 2nd Edition. Vol. 2. Enke, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 856 f.
  • Harald Homann: Revenant. To elucidate anti-sociology using the example of Friedrich Tenbruck. In: Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz , Gerhard Wagner (ed.): Sociology and Anti-Sociology. A discourse and its reconstruction. UVK, Konstanz 2001, pp. 61-88.
  • Dirk Kaesler : The time of outsiders in German sociology. ( Eduard Baumgarten , Johannes F. Winckelmann , Friedrich H. Tenbruck). In: Karl-Ludwig Ay , Knut Borchardt (Hrsg.): Das Faszinosum Max Weber. The history of its validity. UVK, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 3-89669-605-X , pp. 169-195.

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personal data
SURNAME Tenbruck, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tenbruck, Friedrich H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1994
Place of death Tübingen